Re: Look at the line of convection wrap-around!!Beginnings of eyewall
Posted by
jack ruby on 6/27/2010, 8:25 pm
| IN a nutshell---It was a very mysterious hurricane--In the days before sat imagery (1957). It seemed to come from nowhere---reports of a storm in the Bay of Campeche---no record that I know of concerning a wave or depression that passed over the Yucatan---although I wonder if like Alex that was not the case. Anyway, the first recon found a fully developed and large hurricane on its first pass down to the southern Gulf. Size was unusual. Such a large hurricane to build up without warning and in the southern Gulf---not the open Atlantic. The storm moved basically north after that bringing an unheard of June surge (14feet) along the Cameron La coastline. The very large hurricane accelerated as it made its final approach(probably feeling the effects of an oncoming trough, like we have now over the western US---catching the Weather Bureau and the residents by surprise. They woke up on the morning of the 27th with roadways already blocked by rising surge---and could do nothing but wait for the final onslaught which took about 500 lives. |
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Recon is on the way -
Chris in Tampa,
6/27/2010, 5:55 pm- 990.7mb at 19.2N/91.1W - CX, 6/27/2010, 9:19 pm
- Vortex: EXTRAP 991mb. Alex is a TS Again. - CX, 6/27/2010, 8:31 pm
- Finding 997mb - CX, 6/27/2010, 7:39 pm
- Less than twenty minutes from getting center obs probably - Chris in Tampa, 6/27/2010, 7:31 pm
- Re: Recon is on the way - hillsboroughweather, 6/27/2010, 6:06 pm
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